This razor maker can be traced to Joshua Fox, who was granted his Freedom in 1723, after apprenticeship to his father, William. Leader’s Reminiscences of Old Sheffield (1876) has details of the family, which may be related to the other Foxes of Westbar (see Fox & Norris). According to family tradition, in about 1750 Joshua became the first Sheffield manufacturer to open a direct trade to London. ‘It was necessary to go on foot, and before starting he made his will and gave a large farewell party to his friends’ (Leader, 1876). He had a son William (Freedom, 1749), who was listed as a razor manufacturer in Westbar in 1787. He used a dagger mark. William Fox, the ‘eminent cutler’, died on 10 December 1789. He bequeathed £40 to local charities and Sunday schools (Sheffield Register, 18 December 1789, 8 January 1790). The family business had ended by 1815.